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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME 33, NUMBER 26 ■ Talmadge Favors Plan for Fencing Livestock HOBOKEN NEWS Thought for the week: The best monument that a child can raise to his mother’s memory is that of a clean, upright life, such as she would'have rejoiced to see her son live. (Quests and conquests.) • • Mrs. Dudley Spell was given a surprise Stork Shower on Saturday night, June 20, at the home of Mrs. Flpyel-Larkins, with a large num ber of friends and relatives attend* in^. Mrs. Spell received many beau* tiful and useful gifts as expressions of esteem from those present. Mrs. Larkins, assisted by the co-hostess es, Mrs. Frank Dukes, Mrs. Macie Colvin, Mrs. Russell Rhoden, Mrs. Arthur Dukes, Mrs. S. D. Kelley and Mrs. J. C. Sheppard served open faced sandwiches, cake squares and punch to 35 guests. • • • Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Wallis and children, Billy, and Clifford and Olivia arrived on Wednesday from Tampa, Fla., at the home of Mr. Wallis’ mother, Mrs. G. C. Wallis, Sr. where they will spend two weeks vacation. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Brownie and two children, Jay F. and Reba Jean of Clewiston, Fla., Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Spell and children, Donna Gail and Lynn, of Osceola Groves, Canal Point, Fla., were guests of Mrs. Alice Highsmith and family during the weekend. Mrs. Highsmith entertained with an ice cream sup : per on Sunday night and others ' present besides her weekend guests I were Mrs. Ivory Highsmith and children and her guest, Ellen Lee, and Mrs. Elmo Highsmith. •• • • R. B. Brooker, Jos. B. Strickland, Roy Dowling and Ira F. Brown re turned to Nahunta from Atlanta where they attended the hearing of the Public Service Commission on Monday, Miss Ann Milton has returned to Forsyth, Ga., to attend the wedding of Miss Janet Smith. She is to serve at the reception. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Schutte spent last week with Mrs. Ivy Herrin. Hoke Wilson has returned to his home from Jesup where he spent several days in the hospital. •• • • Mrs. Gretchen Rhoden and Mrs. Elizabeth Pearson visited friends in Jacksonville Saturday. ROYAL Theatre Nahunta, Georgia Monday to Friday 8:00 P. M. Saturday 7:00 and 8:30 P. M. PROGRAM THURS. & FRL, JUNE 25-26 “The Naked Spur” With JAMES STEWART and JANET LEIGH SATURDAY. JUNE 27 “Barbed Wire” With GENE AUTRY MON. & TUES., JUNE 29-36 “California Conquest” With CORNEL WILDE and TERESA WRIGHT By MRS. CL C. WALLIS Mr, and Mrs. Tom Lastinger were guests of their daughter, Betty Jo and Mrs. McClure and Mr. McClure in Jacksonville on Sunday. They were accompanied to Folkston by Mrs, J. H. Sikes who visited her son and ’family. •• • • Mr. and Mrs. Russell Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Jones and child ren, Jack and Jill, Rev. J. C. Sheppard, Mr. and Mrs. Olen Du* Bose and two sons, Mrs. Wade Col vin, Miss Olivia Aim Larkins, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Griffin, Mr. Ira Thomas, and Mrs. G. C. Wallis attended the homecoming at Nahunta Baptist Church on Sunday, June 21. Mr. and Mrs. James Westberry and children, Emanuel Riley, Carl, Billy and Jack, have returned to their home after spending three days in Jacksonville with Mrs. West berry’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hoyt. C. Clint Porter Died in Macon C. Clint Porter died suddenly Monday, June 1, in Macon. His wife, Mrs. Ida Mae Robertson Porter who survives him, is the former Miss Ida Mae Morgan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Morgan of Brantley County. Funeral services were held Wed nesday, June 3, and burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon. GEORGIA POLIO FUND DRIVE RESULTS SHOWN Brantley Increased Gifts 132 Percent Georgians contributed $805,000.00 to the fight against polio in 1953, according to figures released in At lanta by General Alvan C. Gillem, executive director of the Georgia March of Dimes. The total indicates a per capita donation of 23% cents. The final report for the 1953 drive shows that Brantley County gave $1,947.00, an increase of 132 per cent over last year. The State, as a whole, showed an increase of about 27 per cent. “We are grateful,” General Gil lem said, “for the outstanding show ing in the State, but the polio pic ture is not entirely a happy one — even with immunizing vaccine ap parently in sight. “Half of what is collected in the March of Dimes remains in the State to finance the Georgia polio fight The other half goes to the National Foundation headquarters to help finance research and meet the demands of epidemics. However, last year, we had to call upon the National Foundation to return near ly $200,000.00 to meet the costs of patient care alone in Georgia. We entered 1953 heavily in debt.” While the 1953 March of Dimes donations have now cancelled out the debt, he continued, there are indications that this year may pro iduce a record number of new pa tients. “And that means,” he concluded, “that we still have a substantial fight on our hands — not withstand ing the fact we are right on the threshold of eventual victory over infantile paralysis through scienti fic accomplishment.” Brantley Enterprise • • • • SMOKEY NAHUNTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1953 STARNES WILL BREACH AT NAHUNTA SUNDAY Rev. C. F. Starnes, the new pas tor of the Nahunta Methodist Church, will begin his work here with services on Sunday, June 28. Preaching will be held at eleven o’clock in the morning, by the pas tor. Sidney Highsmith, who is home from New York, will provide a special musical program. The evening service will be at 8:00 o’clock P. M. Rev. and Mrs. Starnes moved into the Methodist parsonage on Thurs day of last week. Lemuel J. Johnson Dies After Illness Lemuel Joseph Johnson died at his home in Blackshear Wednes day morning, June 24, after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon. Funeral arrangements are incom plete. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Gaynell Herrin Johnson; three daughters, Mrs. W. Luther Pea cock, Miss Jeannette A. Johnson and Miss Beatrice Johnson, all of Blackshear; one son, William Johnson; four sisters, Mrs. Franc es Thomas of Patterson, Mrs. Nancy Spell of Blackshear, Mrs. Ethel Stewart of Nahunta and Mrs. Ella Mae Hall of Offerman; four brothers, Jim W. Johnson of • Bristol, Rufus Johnson of Alma, Jasper Johnson of Hickox and Jack Johnson of Beauford, S. C. Darling Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Tax Office at Douglas Has High Collection Rate The Douglas sales tax office, which is headed by Lonnie E. Sweat of Blackshear, ranked third in the state in collections of delinquent sales taxes during May, a Department of Revenue report reveals. The Douglas office collected $77,891, oonsidered as delinquent taxes, as compared with $90,253 for the Atlanta office and $109,- 725 for the Augusta office. Two Pierce county agent in the Douglas office also had high re cords of collection. J. L. Thomas of Offerman collected $13,242 and J. J. Womackl of Patterson had a slO,Oll total. Edgar P. Brantley Dies in Atlanta Funeral services for Edgar P. Brantley, 58, electrical engineer with the Georgia Power Co. for the past 30 years, were held Monday at 3:30 p. m. at Spring Hill in Atlanta. Dr. Harry Fifield and the Rev. Allen Gardner of ficated, with burial in West view . Cemetery. Mr. Brantley, son. of Anna Pomeroy and Ben D. Brantley of Blackshear, suffered a heart at tack Monday and died Saturday in an Atlanta hospital. If you want to post your land, get the signs from The Brantley Enterprise. Signs read as follows: •‘Posted, No Hunting or Trespassing Allowed”. Signs cost only five cents each. Eighth District Republicans Want Williams Removed Members of the Eighth District Republican Club are seeking the removal of district GOP committee chairman Tom C. Williams, Way cross Negro mortician who is under federal indictment on job selling charges. A resolution adopted at a meet ing at St. Simons Saturday asked the State committee to name Willis Milner of St. Simons, temporary district committee chairman. Milner is president of the club. J. M. Kent, St. Simons, vice chair man of the district committee, who is also under indictment, has sub mitted his resignation which he said would be effective if Williams and other party leaders also indicted would resign. Williams was not present at the meeting and club members said his attitude is not known. There was said to be some question as to the power to remove Williams, who was re-elected to another four-year term last year after serving as chairman since 1936. - The resolution asked that Milner serve as district chairman until the indictments are disposed of. It was described by Kent as an effort to clean up “the mess” that the dis trict organization is in. 1 Kent said the resolution was a dopted unanimously and that 19 ol the 20 counties in the district were represented. Milner was instructed to seek five other party members to serve witi him as an interim patronage com mittee. Kent said he is confideni the charges against himself would be disproved in court and he is pressing for an early trial. Other GOP members indicted were not immediately available foi comment on whether they would follow Kent’s action in resigning. Six persons were indicted by a federal grand jury at Savannah last month on charges of either solicit ing money in connection with post office jobs or offering money for the jobs. Peters Asks Let-up on U. S. “Give-aways” CLARKSVILLE, GA., — Ad dressing a meeting of the State School Board in session here recently, Vice Chairman James S. Peters, Manchester banker and state Democratic chairman, urged a letup in what he called Washington’s international “give away” program in order to leave more mopey for schools and other needs at home. Georgia’s contribution in tax es to such a program in calcu lated by Peters to be around sl -a year. Said he: “Georgia can ill afford to spend five times as much in this giveaway program as she can in education of her people ... Geor gia needs a Minimum Found ation Program or an Adequate Program but we are not able to finance it.” One of the big reasons, he asserted, is the heavy drain on the state for support of the “In ternational Program. He added “we are spending more than SSO-billion annually in an ef fort to tell other people of the world how to run their own bus iness” and with little if any success. 27 COUNTIES TO VOTE ON ACT BANNING CATTLE FROM HIGHWAYS Bachlott Church of God Holds Revival Revival services are in progress at Bachlott Church of God it is announced by the pastor, Rev. Loyd Davis. The revival started on Sunday, June 21. Rev. G. K. Livingston of Black shear, Ga., is doing the preaching and everybody is invited to attend. Services are held each evening at seven-thirty o’clock. CONGRESSMEN VOTE SELVES BIG TAX RELIEF Would Deduct Their Washington Time Living Expense The House of Representatives, which since last February has kept bottled up a bill for individual tax reduction has voted to give its own members substantial tax relief. But the Senate may knock the plan in the head, as it did last year. Without debate and with no au dible opposition, the House voted Monday to allow members of Con gress to deduct all their Washing ton expense when they figure out their tax bills. They could deduct edging, food, taxicabs, telephone charges and so on for themselves but not for their families. Congress members may now deduct up to $3,000 a year as Washington ex penses. The tax relief proposal was writ en into, the annual appropriation nil to finance Congress. It was pro posed by Rep. McCormack (D-Mass) who long had advocated a pay raise for congressmen on the grounds that they have difficulty making mds meet on their present $15,000 dficial income. A similar proposal was added to the House last year to the same bill, but the Senate knocked it out and the result was the compromise al lowing members of Congress to de duct up to $3,000 as business ex penses. The McCormack proposal in effect would remove this limitation. ALDRIDGE BOY BURNED BADLY BY EXPLOSION Was Working On Discarded Refrigerator Jerry Aldridge, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Aldridge, was seriously burned on the face, neck and hands Monday after noon when the gas tubes explod ed in an old discarded electric refrigerator on which he was working. The box had been discarded about two years ago and Jerry was attempting to remove the motor when the explosion occur red. He was carried to the Black shear Clinic where he received first aid and then rushed to the Ware County Hospital by ambul ance. The extent of his injuries had not been fully determined when, this caper went to press. FOREST FIRES CAN BE PREVENTED! OFFICIAL ORGAN Wednesday, July 1 Is Election Day In Brantley County By REESE CLEGHORN In The Atlanta Constitution Gov. Herman Talmadge threw his verbal support Monday be hind abolition of “open range” for livestock in 27 southeast Georgia counties. The chief executive comment ed that he expects the section to “vote the cattle off the highways during the next two to four years.” _ His prediction came a little more than a week before south east Georgians are scheduled to ballot on whether to come under a law passed by the last General Assembly which would make livestock owners responsible for keeping their animals off public roads. The governor commented that it will be “just a matter of time” before open range is abolished fn all Georgia bounties. The block of 27 counties in southeast portion of the state is the last remaining part of the nation which allows cattle to roam unfenced, the Georgia Mo tor Club says. Governor Talmadge, something of a livestock man himself on his farm at Lovejoy, remarked Mon day that the livestock industry may profit from an end to open range. “The cattlemen are learning, particularly with falling catUe prices, that you have to have better pastures and a better breed of cattle to sell these days”, he said. Improved cattle blood would result if herds were kept Off the highways and thus removed from the danger of loss and acci dents, the governor said. The legislative act to be voted upon provides that livestock own ers have until 1955 to contain thei r animals. The law does not mention the word “fence.” It simply provides that livestock owners are financially responsi ble for keeping animals off the roads — any road maintained by the state. Further, a cattle owner who deliberately disobeys the act can be prosecuted. Governor Talmadge called the law “a very happy solution be cause it will give these people either time to dispose Os their cattle or develop their pastures.” Forestry will be improved with an end to open range, the Chief Executive predicted, because live stock owners will not be burning off so much forest land to provide grazing. Birth Announcements Mr. and Mrs. James White an nounce the birth of a baby girl born on June 20 in a Waycross hospital. Miss Eula Jean Fais of Burling ton, N. C., is home for the summer with her ‘mother, Mrs. W. P. Fais. • * • Audrey Faye and Charlotte Ray Herrin spent several days in Jack sonville, Fla., with their sisters, Beatrice Abney and Myrtle Hogan.